My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be a rapper. I want to be in the movies. I want to own buildings. — Riff Raff Copy Share Image
I'm in love with corrugated iron buildings, especially chapels and churches. — Keith Allen Copy Share Image
If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
In my thesis, I made an intellectual exercise out of creating a pair of buildings that were a repeat but slightly different… — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories -… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I'm just a guy drawing comics. Guys knocking other guys through buildings. Guys flipping tanks over on each other. I'm just trying… — Rob Liefeld Copy Share Image
Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff. — Heath Ledger Copy Share Image
Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces. — Alain Robert Copy Share Image
Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings. — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse. — Ralph Erskine Copy Share Image
A painter, a sculptor, a writer, they can express freely. They don't affect society as a whole. We build buildings that have… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or… — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
No restaurant, however brilliantly situated, can give you the constantly changing views that you can see from a railway. Revolving restaurants at… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
In 1975, the Americans suffered a spectacular military defeat at the hands of North Vietnam and the Vietcong, with U.S. helicopters seeking… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, the most physically imposing buildings on earth were temples, churches, and mosques. But in the 20th century, new… — Thomas Hauser Copy Share Image
You have to blast to build in Manhattan. And the buildings went up in Manhattan because of the power of that bedrock.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's funeral because they all know I'm… — Sam Simon Copy Share Image
Public buildings, built from the rates and taxes paid by past generations, are being auctioned off by impoverished councils who need the… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones. — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new. — Farah Diba Copy Share Image
“There is no closure for this. Closure is for buildings, not people.” — James Renner Copy Share Image
“It was one of those buildings that you don't so much as look at as bathe in.” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.' — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
I personally will never forget that people are more important than buildings. — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
Some people design buildings and aircraft carriers and cars - and I designed picks. — Rick Nielsen Copy Share Image
In Manchester, you don't have proper tall buildings. Or in Munich. — Bastian Schweinsteiger Copy Share Image
